About
Neta Weiner is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, playwright, and cultural activist whose work spans a wide range of artistic fields and modes of expression. Based between Berlin, Boston, and Jaffa, he creates at the intersection of art, education, and social change.
Weiner is the founder and lead vocalist of System Ali, the groundbreaking multilingual Jewish-Palestinian hip-hop collective, and the longtime artistic director of Beit System Ali, a cultural-educational movement rooted in community activism. His music and theatre works unfold in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and English, weaving together rap, klezmer, spoken word, and live performance.
His stage creations – including Cut. Loose, Mejinik, the rap-opera Shmuel, and Mother of Strangers – have been performed at leading theatres, museums, and festivals worldwide, from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Gesher Theatre to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Pop-Kultur Berlin, and Harvard University. He has acted in award-winning films and TV series, and composed the soundtrack for Madrasa, a groundbreaking teen drama. His latest musical projects include ISMA, a transnational collaboration with Samira Saraya and Berlin-based producer Hoyah, and Oys to Men, a klezmer hip-hop ensemble.
Alongside his artistic practice, Weiner is deeply engaged in education. He has taught at Tufts University in Boston and served as a guest scholar at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center, while leading courses and workshops across universities, high schools, and cultural centers. His teaching explores language, performance, and solidarity as tools for re-imagining social and political realities.
A martial artist for more than two decades and a licensed Wing Tsun Kung Fu instructor, Weiner integrates martial arts into his performance language and pedagogy – as a discipline of focus, listening, and shared strength. He also leads site-responsive walking performances in Jaffa that braid together music, memory, and urban archaeology.
Weiner’s work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Schechter-Rabinovitz Prize for Original Art. At its core, his practice links the personal to the political, building shared cultural spaces where diverse languages, identities, and histories meet.
